Shaving guide



June 30, 1931. MASON 1,812,443

SHAVING GUIDE Filed Jan. 8, 1931 Patented June 36, 1931 PATENT DFFIE'FRED MASON, OF LANSDALE, PENNSYLVANIA SHAVING GUIDE Application filedJanuary 8, 1931.

My invention relates to devices for providing a simple and practicalmeans by which men, especially those who shave themselves, may easilyand accurately secure and main- '5 tain a straight and neat line ofuniform height to the hair immediately in front of the ears.

My device may be used with any style or make of razor.

Broadly, the invention comprises a band of flexible material to betemporarily placed on the head and having at one end an adjustable gaugeor guide which enables the shaver to cut the edge of the hair in frontof the ears in a straight neat line at any de sired and uniform height.

In the drawings accompanying this specification Figure 1 illustrates aside view of a mans head with my invention in position, and Figure 2 isa front view of the device itself.

In both figures, the numeral 1 indicates the flexible band which holdsthe gauge to the head; 2 indicates the screws by which the gauge isattached to the end of the flexible band; 3 indicates the gauge itself,preferably made of a very hard rubber compound; this gauge is one inchwide and one and fiveeighths inches long; where it attaches to theflexible band it has a thickness of one-eighth of an inch whichcontinues for one oneeighth inches of its length at which point thegauge tapers to a thin but lunt edge; numeral 4 indicates four holesone-fourth of 35 an inch apart, the first one being one-fourth of aninch below the top of the gauge; these holes run thru the width of thegauge and permit the insertion of a small sliding steel rod two one-halfinches long (indicated by 5) whose protruding end will rest on the upperjunctionof either ear to the head and thus maintains the lower edge ofthe gauge at a uniform height in front of the ears; the selection of thehole in which the rod is inserted determines the level of the lower edgeof the gauge and thus permits the shaver to choose the height he likesbest for the line of the hair in front of the ears.

During the operation of shaving the finger ps of the free hand pressedlightly against Serial No. 507,453.

the upper edge of the gauge will hold the gauge firmly against the sideof the head in front of the ear, its height being kept uniform by thesmall rod protruding from the back of the gauge and resting on the upperjunction of the ear to the head.

lVhat I claim is:

1. As a new article of manufacture a device of the kind and for thepurpose described comprising in combination a flexible meinher adaptedto engage the head, a member attached to the head member and beingperforated a number of times transversely in order to admit theinsertion of a sliding rod, a sliding rod to be inserted selectively insaid holes and protrudin to rest upon the upper junction of either earand the head, the choice of the hole in which the rod is inserteddetermining the level of the lower edge of the gauge as it rests on theside of the head and in front of the ear and thus enabling the shaver tosecure a neat edge of the hair immediately in front of the car at thelevel desired.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a device of the kind and for thepurpose described, said device comprising in combination a flexiblemember shaped to be placed snugly across the top of a human head and ashaving gauge secured to said member and having a face arranged toengage the side of the head, said member being traversed by a throughopening parallel to said face, and a rod snugly slidable through saidopening to project on either side of the member and rest on either earto properly position said gauge.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature.

FRED MASON.

